WAR TERRORS STRIKE
A TERRIFIC BLOW TO-
ONE LOCAL WOMAN
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Four Brothers and Sweet--heart
Went to Front When -Clash
in Europe Carrie,
TWO BROTHERS ARE SLAIN
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Portland XrtdBt WhOM Position
XI Kott Trying1.
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No doubt It 1 very exciting to pick The French wilt give, up all their
up th paper, skim over the war new .men,, their young men and their old
and Bhlver at the latest horrora among men, before they will yield. ., .
people you never met in countries you, VThe Germans attack us and -moY
never saw. dewn- upon us because . they have
There mut be repeated chills and ( waited and stored up treasure "and
thrills In the war arguments, and not made fortifications .until they would
a little satisfaction in settling me
causen, the campaigns and the con
summations all to one's own satisfac
tion. Probably, too, the war seems less
dittant more real and not so much
Just a Bubject of daily report and spec
ulative conversation where there la
mention of some of the hard exper-
iencea American, have had getting
home out of the war zone.
War Features Appeal.
But suppose home to you meant;
France; that you were a young woman
tr.hinir vour native tongue to the
children of well to do Portlanders;
that the war called into action your
four brothers and your sister's hus
band In one army, and your finance
Into a hostile force;, that you were
aure they must be fighting, but weeks
followed weeks without word until one
day there was a letter that brought
no gladness after its seal was broken,
because it eald two of the brothers
had been killed, without saying which
two.
Wouldn't it all come home to you
then this war?
If it does come home to $ou, you
can put yourself in the place of Miss
Vera Bel of 738 Hoyt street.
All her relatives are In France. Her
parents are dead. She came here to
teach. But since the war her mind
and her heart, she says, are in France.
Vosltlon Trying One.
The man she 1s to marry If she re
turns to France and he survives the
war. is in the Hunuarlan army. Con
sequently her sympathies are not so
much for one side aa against the other,
as for those near to her who fight
on both nide.
For that matter, said Miss Bel, yes
terday. In lier pretty, French way, the,
Austro-Hungarlans who fight with the
Germans against the English and the
French, have no heart for their work.
"They say to themselves, Viya la
Franco;' and they are so much taken
up with the English," she averred.
"1 do not have a guess. I know for
I know and have my friends among
thofc who fight.
"I watch the war 'news. 1 wait
erry clay for some message. I go i
every day to The Journal and I study !
the war map there. Others come too,
but they seem only curious, while- I
oh, every day's moves of the armies
nieann something to me, means more
anxiety, more worry.
Watches War Ifewm,
"Half the time I do not know what
I am doing. I think, 'Am I awake, am
I dreaming, will I open my eyes pretty
noon and the what you call night
mare be only a Joke. I do not care
much if 1 eat, or If I rest, but I must
work, for, since the war my guardian
in France sends me nothing, and' then
the work helps me forget for a little
mlile."'
Miffs Bel is attractive, modest and
retiring. She knows Europe well from
extensive travels and she speaks Ger
man Mid Hungarian fluently as well
an KiirUnI) and her native French. Her
fiance wan brought up In her own
. faintly, but that did not relieve his
necessity to fight with his own peo
ple against hers when the war broke
out.
Two Brothers Killed.
One brother, she has learned, was
killed at the beginning of the war.
The other ,whh killed In hand-to-hand
battle oh the French opposed the
man h of the Germans on Paris. Hie
arm wan rrlscronscd with sword cuts,
but what took hlu life was one of the
heavy Oerman bullets passing en
tirely through bin body.
"Would you huve kept them from
fighting for their country if, thus, you
knew they could have been kept from
harm?" nhe was aked.
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rfgrret Is that I km hero and not there,
that I am a woman and not a man who
think France weak enough to crush.
tfbt So atronf JLa Oannany.
"And France is not as strong a
Germany,, nor so well . prepared for
war, and the hajp of the English
means much.
'Sometimes they say our French
men are light and airy they laugh.
they sing a song, they pick a flower,
they make cmpUmenta and JOve. But
that is not true. Our men can fight.
I They do not fight like wooden'men as
the Germans fight. They are quick;
they know how to fence. The Germans
with their big guns fight well at a
distance, but In hand to hand battle
one Frenchman Is equal to three Ger
mans. "And if the Germans should get by
the SS forts outside Paris though I
don't see how they can and If all our
men should be beaten down, the women
and children of Paris will oppose them
as long as they have breath and life."
Miss Bel said that she tried to go
back to her own country as a Red
Gross - nurse, but gave up 'the effort
when she found her own government
would have to bear the expense of
transportation.. She did not think her
government should be called upon for
any preventable expense.
As she sat talking ttbout the war in
her rapid English, the postman rang
the belL With a hasty "Excuse me"
she ran to the door, her face bright
with hope, but she returned crest
fallen. The only letter left was for
someone else.
"I get so few letters and they -mean
so much Ho me,'" she moaned.
Copy of American
Bulletin Keceived
paper Published In Xrtndon Gives Prill
Details of Means of Befagees' Re
turning Hone.
A copy of "The' American Bulletin."
published by the American relief com
mittee- for the information of Ameri
can reiugees in London, just re
ceived in Portland, shows graphically
tn? eiatorate and systematic mean
ures taken by the committee to as
sist tnetr fellow countrymen in
need.s
The Bulletin consists of four four-
column pages, one of which is devoted
entirely to an advertisement for. Self
ridge's, the big American department
store in London.
The pajer contains information of
every 1 conceivable description for
Americans, such p.s a steamship table
with sailing dates of vessels and their
approximate carrying capacities and
whether filled or with available
space.
There ls a "leader" or editorial ex
horting Americans to return to the
United States, as "All Americans
worth their salt are needed In their
own communities with their shoulder
to the wheel."
There Is a list of those registered
with the committee for the day pre
ceding publication, an Inquiry column
entitled "Who's Where T' a list of do
nations to the women's relief commit
tee and information regarding money,
lost baggage, letters for the continent,
passports and steamship tickets.
Americana are warned of steam
ship speculators and pickpockets and
warning- It, issued in black type to
women alone to stay clear -of lodg
ings K"not expressly approved by our
women s committee."
The Bulletin makes it clear that
everything possible is being done by
the committee to protect and care for
Americans in the great city on the
x names.
French Censorship
Law Is Very Strict
Correspondents Forbidden to Approach
Xearer Than 85 Miles to the Pro
tier or Battle Xdne. .
Paris, Sept. 2. The strictness of
the French press censorship can be
more forcibly realixed when one reads
the law passed governing publishing
oi news, i ne law, in part, read:
"Journalists are forbidden to pub
lish information, other thart that com
municated by the government or the
military authorities on the following
points: Military operations, mobiliza
tion, transport of froopa, transport of
war materials, composition of divis
ions, etc, strategic plana, lists of
wounded, killed and prisoners, fortifj
cations, provisions, movement of
the fleet, etc., and in general alt in
formation of a military or diplomatic
character tending to favor the enemy
and damp the spirit of' the army and
the public."
The law forbids any correspondent
to approach nearer- than 15 miles to
tho frontier or, wherever the battle
line may be.. r
French Sculptor -Donates
Hospital
Predertck XaeXonxdea and Wife Offer
Polly Sxppe4 Bnlldiag With
Twelve Beds to Bed Cross. ,
Paris, Sept. 2S. Frederick Mac
Monnies and his wife have presented a
fully equipped hospital pf 12 beds to
the Red Cross. The hospital is located
at Glrerny, where the sculptor has hi
summer residence. The studio of the
late James Finn, also is being used for
a hospital. The American residents
of Grverjiy supplied blankets and other i
equipment ana fflme. MacMonnies do
nated money with ' which to run the
hospital for three months..
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Top Company of French soldiers.
Tenth member in line, counting
left to right, is brother of Port
land woman.
Bottom Miss Vera Bel of this
city, whose four brothers an
swered the call to colors.
'ATROCITIES' OF WAR
BY AMERICAN JUDGES
London Spectator Suggests
That Three Be Named by
French, British, Belgians.
London,' Sept. 28. An inquiry by
American jurists into the allegations
of . German disregard of the rules of
civilized warfare is suggested by the
Weekly Spectator.
"Undoubtedly American jurists
would command most general confi
dence," the Spectator says. "We can
not ask President Wilson or the Amer
ican government to appoint such a
committee of Inquiry. They would
naturally be afraid of annoying the
German government by ' so doing and
of imperiling that strict, nay anxiuoa,
neutrality which they desire to main-
tain in the case of the German empire.
We do not see, however, why the
French, British, and Belgian goTern-
ments should not privately Invite threa
American jurists of high distinction to
undertake the work of discovering
whether the Germans have respected
and are respecting the agreement
made at the Hague in 1899 and 1907,
and also' those rules of civilized war
fare which generally are respected by
belligerents and to report whether any
infringement of these conventions and
these rules have been made by . mil
itary order or whether such cases of
inhumanity as have taken place were
due merely to the soldiery having got
out of hand and that the responsible
oflcers did their best, even ir inef
fectively, to check the unauthorized
action.
President Wilson could hardly for
bid Americans to conduct such an in
quiry."
The Spectator takes 'exception to the
suggestion of Lord Selborne .that
Dutch jurists should join with the
Americans on the ground that the
Dutch people stand today in the grip
of Germany arid that it would not be
fair to ask Dutch jurists by their
action to expose their country to the
risk of bringing upon it the fats that
has overtaken Belgium.
"American Judges." the Spectator
concludes, "happily need " not be
weighed down by such con side rations."
Swiss Make Loan
For Army Expenses
Mobilization Cost Will Be Paid by
Borrowing- 80,000,000 Franca, to Be
Bepaid is 19X7.
Washington, Sept. 26. Conditions In
Switzerland, especially concerning
finances, were described in ; a state
ment issued from the Swiss ; legation.
It states:,
"For covering the expenses of the
mobilization Switzerland has issued, at
99 per cent, a loan of 30,000.000 francs
at & per cent, payable in 1917. For
the special benefit of American tour
ists the Swiss press published newi
of interest to them In English. - No
attempt of any violation of Swiss neu
trality is to be reported."
It is rumored in Missouri that Gov
ernor Major is planning to run for
United States senator two years hence.
when a successor to Senator James A.
Reed Is to be elected.
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BE ELEMENT THAT IS
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By Herbert Temple.
London, Sept. 26. One of the most
powerful elements that is at work to
day for- the .settlement of the I great
European .war is the appalling cost of
the titanic" conflict. It can be Only a
matter of time until every one of the
warring powers is embarrassed finan
cially. It is not assuming too mnct
to. say that each of the nations, with
its great armament, believed that war,
when it came, would be of brief dura
tion; that the stupendous cost, and the
terrible loss of life wrought by mod
ern war machinery would bring any
connict to a quick termination..
The European powers have not en
tered upon this war without some pre
rious calculation as to the means by
which it must be carried out- In ad
dition to the great accumulation of
gold in the central banks, plans for
new taxation and additional allow
ances for the army and navy have
been part of the fiscal programs of
all the powers for many years.
Immense War Appropriations.
The immense war appropriations of
the combatants, huge as they are,
would be a mere bagatelle if the war
is prolonged. Germany at the outset
appropriated Sl,250,000,000; France on
the same day set aside more than $1,
000003,000, and the British parliament
voted $500,000,000, following this up
subsequently with another appropria
tion of the same amount. Russia has
not made known what she appropri
ated, but it is safe to say that the
grand total of the European war funds
by all the belligerents -is near $4,000.
000,000. Several European experts In such
matters have estimated that the. war
is now costing the combatants $50,
000,000 a day. Some Frenchmen have
calculated that It is costing- France
alone $20,000,000 daily.
How Is this tremendous ' burden of
war outlay to be met? That is the
problem with which the financiers in
the European cabinets are grappling
while the tacticians are planning new
army moves. ' j
Preach Batata! Talaes. ,
In France the official estimate of
the rental value of private structures,
homes, stores, mills, hotels and the
like is about $708,000,000 annually. If,
therefore, $20,000,000 a day;, is re
quired for the French army ; now in
the field, the value of the rentals of
the nation for a whole year was licked
up in 36 days. It is already gone.
This is just one item to bring home
to the average man the. effect or war.
Who will say that under any form of
taxation, such burdens will not react
directly upon the rental of the hum
blest laborer and indirectly, through
the enhanced rental of stores and
shops, upon the price of what be buys?
This is only one of the many forms
in which the financial burden) of the
war will fall upon the masses In all
the countries involved in the struggle
and in the form of increased debt and
interest charges upon their children
and children's children yet unborn.
Europe Has Enormous Setts.
Already the oldest countries 'of Eu
rope stagger under enormous debts in
curred in similar manner in previous
wars. France bears the heaviest bur
den of public debt, amounting to about
$6,350,000,000. Great Britain,! cornea
next with aboat $3,500,000,000.
The debt of the German empire la
only little more than $1,000,000,000,
but this is because the empire is only
about 45 years old, and the Immense
debts of its component parts are still
borne by the separate states. Austria
Hungary has a debt of abont $1,000,
000,000. !1 i
According to the most available fig
ures, the annual debt charges of
France amount to $255,000,000;; Great
Britain. $120,000,000; Austria-Hungary,
$60,000,000. and the Germany empire.
$62,000,000.
The national debt of Russia amounts
to about $4,550,000,000 on which the
annual . charges amount to some $207,
000,900. But, unlike the other; great
powers. Russia's debt was not entirely
incurred buying powder and ball, but
represents to a largo extent import
ant productive works like, the Trans-
Siberian railway and similar unaer
takings. i
, Wlio Win Bear the Burden. .
How much these staggering charges
are to be increased in the various
countries by this greatest of all wars.
no man can say, but inevitably the
fresh burden Imposed by the waste of
war will fall upon the laborer and the
man of small means. They may; not
pay the taxes directly but tbey will
pay them Indirectly.
For them the war means in a large
measure that the Increased productive
power of the race, due to machinery,
which has added so greatly to humac
comfort, will be cancelled by the
waste of war. It means that every
thing- that they buy will be Increased
in order that the. dealer may pay high
er rent and. taxes. And the money
with which they buy will decline in
their hands, if their respective states
resort to excessive issues of paper in
order to provide the "sinews of war.
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Soldier's Funeral' to".
Be Held Tuesday
Services for X.ata Captala mhees Jack-
son wm Occur at Ainiory MlllTary
Komors to Be Given,
Funeral services for the late Captain
Rhees Jackson, U.' S. A son of Colo
nel James Jackson, U. 8. A-. retired,
of Portland, who was killed at Laredo,
Texas, last week by a fall from his
horse, will be held at . the Armory,
Tenth and Couch streets, at 2 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon. -'
A military escort, provided by; Colo
nel . Young, of the Twenty-first ' in
fantry at Vancouver, and Colonel Mar-j
tin, of the Third Oregon infantry, will
accompany the body from the Armory
down Stark street to Second street
and south on Second street to Market
street. Here the escorting troops will
be halted and returned to their sta
tions. Interment will be In Rlvervlew cem
etery, friends and relatives as well aa
a firing squad accompanying the body
to its place of last rest.
War May Reconcile
Church and State
Heroio Work of Preach Buns and
Monks oa Battlefields Zs Being BM.
ogmized by the Government.
Paris. Sept. 26. "War may reunite
church and state in France.
Hundreds of nuns have been recalled
from Belgium, to which country they
were expelled when the religious or
ders were dissolved and are working
as hospital nurses.
Moreover, there are 22,000 monks on
the battlefields. It is- thought im
possible that the heroic work of both
nuns and monks should be lost on a
public which is ever quick to recog
nize devotion to duty.
Probably the Concordat In France
will never be seen again, but under a
new pope it is believed that the war
will Induce a better understanding
between church and government.
Churches still win remain the prop
erty of the state. There will at least
be an era in which not only national
monuments, like Notre Dame, but all
churches will be maintained and re
paired at public expense.
Frince of Wales Is
Not Going to Front
London, Sept. H. The Prince of
Wales was very anxious to go to the
front, according to a statement issued
by the official press bureau, and trie!
to get Lord Kitcheners consent to do
so. But as he had not completed his
military training. Lord Kitchener sub
mitted to the king "that for the pres
ent it is undesirable that his royal
highness should proceed on active
service.'
MILITANTS WILL PAY TAX
London. Sept. 26. The Wompn'
Tax Resistance league, composed
mainly of suffragettes, whose motto
is "No vote, no tax," has decided to
pay taxes this year oa account of the
war. It notified the government to
this effect. In the past members of
the league frequently have sacrificed
their property rather than pay taxes.
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